After 18 months of covid-19 restrictions, Budapest is slowly limping its way back to normal life. People preparing for the Christmas festivities. But not everyone can get into the Christmas market though. Only those who are double vaccinated and have no covid symptoms are allowed in.

So how is Budapest gearing up for the festive season?

Pope Francis used his short time in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday to urge his bishops to embrace diversity and send a message to the country’s hard-right, anti-migrant leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, that God is not a strongman who silences enemies and that religious roots, while vital for a country, also allow it to open up and extend “its arms toward everyone.

In Orban’s Hungary, pope urges bishops to embrace diversity

Thousands of Hungarians planned to join the annual Budapest Pride march on Saturday in a show of support for LGBT people and to protest against a law banning the use of materials in schools seen as promoting homosexuality and gender reassignment.

Thousands to join Budapest Pride march in protest over new anti-LGBT law

Hungary's Sziget, which organises some of the largest music festivals in Europe, said on Thursday that it had cancelled this summer's main event in Budapest and would instead make a "grand comeback" in 2022.

'With sadness in our heart' Sziget cancels Budapest music festival

Hit by a plunge in turnover after foreign tourists vanished, Michelin-starred Hungarian restaurant Costes has staged a skyline dining event on the Budapest Eye ferris wheel to generate sales in a coronavirus-proof environment.

Hungarian restaurant reinvents the wheel for social distancing

Dozens of journalists walked out of Hungary's top independent news site on Friday in protest at the removal of its editor-in-chief, with some warning the events marked the "destruction" of yet another pillar of press freedom.

Journalists resign from Hungary news site en masse

After some relief in country's coronavirus cases, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban lifted some restrictions in the country, except Budapest. However, the Prime Minister has now urged the public to exercise caution and has warned against a second-wave of the coronavirus.

The virus has not gone away, we have only won some time: Hungarian PM warns people

A rare treat for visitors at Budapest Zoo as polar bears' feeding time gave spectators a chance to watch apex predators feast on Thursday (30 JANUARY 2020).

Budapest zoo's polar bears reach for meat treats

Hungarians go to the polls Sunday in municipal elections seen as a rare chance for the beleaguered opposition to roll back the power of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Hungary opposition eyes Budapest, gains in local elections

An airplane operated by Czech airline Smartwings made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff at Budapest's Liszt Ferenc Airport on Thursday after its landing gear was damaged, a spokesman for Budapest Airport told national news agency MTI.

Czech airline Smartwings-operated Boeing makes emergency landing in Budapest

Seven South Koreans have died and 19 others are missing after a tourist sightseeing boat capsized and sank on the Danube in Budapest, Hungarian and South Korean officials said Thursday.

Seven South Koreans dead, 19 missing after boat sinks in Budapest

Thousands protest for academic freedom in Budapest

Hungary's public phone booths adapt to the world of cellphones

The crowd of protesters were chanting 'We are the majority' as they staged a protest demanded a recount of ballots and new election law to make the system more democratic

Tens of thousands of people hold anti-Orban protest in Hungary's Budapest

The EU took Hungary to the bloc's top court on Thursday over a crackdown on education and foreign-backed civil society groups that critics say targets US billionaire George Soros

EU takes Hungary to court over 'anti-Soros' laws

Around 400,000 migrants and refugees passed through Hungary in 2015 before the government sealed southern borders with razor wire and fences

Hungary to hold October referendum on EU migrant scheme

According to U.N. refugee agency, the new migrant law in Hungry will worsen the situation for those waiting to submit asylum application

New law allows Hungary police to return migrants beyond border fence

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